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High fashion's highest priestess, Carmel Snow, retired last week after 25 years as editor of Hearst-owned Harper's Bazaar (circ. 393,787), but will continue to cover the Paris showings for the Bazaar. Her successor: Nancy White (wife of FORTUNE Publisher Ralph D. Paine Jr.), onetime (1947-57) fashion editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, since last January assistant editor of the Bazaar...
...ultraconservative pressure groups. Through industry and acumen, round-faced, open-handed Frank Gannett also built one of the nation's biggest and most profitable newspaper empires. When he died last week in Rochester at 81, long-ailing Frank Gannett not only owned the 125-year-old Democrat & Chronicle (circ. 125,405), but 21 other papers as well-more than any other U.S. publisher has ever acquired without the help of inheritance...
...were encouraged to vary their typography, choose their own features, mold editorial policies to suit their own communities. Boasted Publisher Gannett: "Nothing ever goes out of my office with a 'must' on it." Example: though Gannett and his flagship paper, Rochester's evening Times-Union (circ. 128,147), zealously promoted the St. Lawrence Seaway, his Albany Knickerbocker News (circ. 53,870) doggedly fought the project as an economic threat to Albany...
...when other Gannett papers (nearly all in solid Republican territory) supported Tom Dewey for President, Gannett's Independent Democratic Hartford (Conn.) Times (circ. 120,182) backed Truman; in 1952, when Gannett backed Taft, the Times and most other papers in the group boomed Eisenhower. His Independent Republican Binghamton (N.Y.) Press (circ. 64,562), one of the best small-city newspapers in the U.S., has lately made a habit of supporting Democrats for mayor. During a state election campaign in which several of his papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called...
...become owner, publisher and editor of the weekly Newport Harbor News Press. Far from succumbing to the easygoing ways of Newport's cruise-and-booze set, Newsman Reddick covered the town as if it were just another waterfront, turned his paper into an aggressive, news-packed triweekly (circ. 4,445) that not infrequently pinned back the Examiner's ears on a big story...